Quotes on Life Happiness

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.

I don't believe in yesterday, by the way.

I believe in everything until it's disproved.

The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

What everyone wants from life is continuous and genuine happiness.

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Live life and take chances. Believe that everything happens for a reason and don't regret. Love to the fullest and you will find true happiness in life. Realize that things go wrong and people change, but things do go on. Sometimes things weren't meant to be. What is supposed to happen will work its way out.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary--you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

The happiness of life consists, like the day, not in single flashes (of light), but in one continuous mild serenity. The most beautiful period of the heart's existence is in this calm equable light, even although it be only moonshine or twilight. Now the mind alone can obtain for us this heavenly cheerfulness and peace.